Board asks staff to mirror SOP scoring language in application evaluation
Jul 15, 2026
Board members asked staff to align the grant-application evaluation bullets with the board's SOP (application alignment, community impact, capacity, budget justification, equity, target population); staff agreed to update the draft.
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Members urged precise consistency between the SOP and the application evaluation criteria so applicants can map responses to scoring categories. "So shouldn't we use mirror the language that we put in the SOP about OSE underserved communities instead of saying it like this?" one member asked, recommending identical terminology so reviewers and applicants can trace evaluation standards.
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